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| Common law is based on __________. |
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| Declaration of Indepedence |
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| the document adopted by the second Continental Congress to separate from England |
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| the king of England during the American revolution |
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| In response to the taxes imposed by the British Parliament, many American colonists decided to boycott, or __________, British goods. |
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| a seventeenth-century English philosopher whose social contract theory influenced the declaration |
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| King __________ was forced to sign the Magna Carta in 1215. |
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| Many of the ideas in the Declaration of Independence were drawn from English philosopher __________. |
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| The author of the Declaration of Independence was __________. |
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| The first representative assembly in the English colonies was the __________. |
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| Virginia House of Burgesses |
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| the man who wrote the original draft of Indepedence |
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| Virginia house of burgesses |
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| the first representative assembly, or legislature, in the English colonies |
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| Which state's constitution served as a model for the U.S. Constitution? |
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| articles of confederation |
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| the first constitution of the united states; in effect during most of the 1780s |
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| the power as determined by law |
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| a legislature consisting of two parts, or houses |
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| the refusal to purchase certain goods |
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| a written document granting land and the authority to set up colonial governments |
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| a group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere |
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| a system of law based on precedent and customs |
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| pamphlet by Thomas Paine that explained why american colonists should declare independence |
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| an agreement, or contract, among a group of people |
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| a group of individuals or state governments |
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| a detailed, written plan for government |
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| an agreement between two parties |
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| a presendentative to a meeting |
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| first continental congress |
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| the initial meeting of the American colonies; rights as English citizens |
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| English war that caused the debt which led to tax conflicts between England and its American colonies |
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| the peaceful transfer of power in england that resulted in the monarch having less power than parliament |
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| something allowed by the authority |
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| the country formed by the union of England and scotland |
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| he first government of the United States was the __________. |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| self-reliance and freedom from outside control |
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| the president of the second continental congress who signed the Declaration in large handwriting |
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| officially authorized by law |
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| a group of people that makes laws |
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| the great character of England signed by king john in 1215 |
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| king james II's daughter and her husband, who became the monarchs after the glorious revolution |
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| the written plan for government agreed upon by the pilgrims |
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| the theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries that it buys |
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| no taxation without representaons |
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| slogan used by the american colonists to show their complaint about English taxes being unfair |
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| a ruling that is used as the basis for a judicial decision in a later, similar case |
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| second continental congress |
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| the group that governed the colonies during the american revolution and adopdted the declaration of Indepedence |
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| English tax on the colonies that emphasized the american complaint of taxation without representation |
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| a well thought out recognition |
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